Employability Coach

4 months ago

Lancaster, United Kingdom Hft Full time

**Location Base**

North Lancashire and South Cumbria area - working remotely across several Project SEARCH base sites in Lancaster and Barrow, as well as external organisations. Some travel outside of this area may be required.

**Hours of work**

Monday - Friday 8.30-4.30pm with some flexibility expected around evening and weekend work

**Find your place with us and help change lives.**

HFT are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.

As a Follow-On Employability Coach at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible, by supporting them to achieve goals and aspirations around paid employment. In this creative and rewarding role, you will enable people to develop and acquire relevant skills needed for the workplace, support them to gain work experience, and help them to find long term paid employment. You will provide innovative and high quality support to individuals who are in employment, or currently looking for work. You will be helping to ensure that the people we support:

- Have the opportunity to develop relevant skills for employment
- Gain work experience in a large business
- Increase their independence
- Achieve their aspirations
- Are empowered to make decisions and choices around their future employment
- Are kept safe

**About you**

You will have a ‘Can Do’ attitude, be driven and enthusiastic about helping people with learning disabilities to meet their aspirations. You will have the ability to look for creative solutions to meet people's support needs in a way that respects their individuality. You will work be able to work well using your own initiative and in partnership with colleagues from partner organisations, and with Hft’s Work Options Manager.

As an Employability Coach at Project SEARCH, you will usually work Mon-Fri during office hours, however you will need to be open to flexible working which may involve some occasional evening and weekend work.

**What we offer**

We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in our teams to ensure they have the specialist skills they need.

**Benefits**:

- As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. Within this, all Hft employees get access to the LifeWorks - the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it
- Access to award winning training and development - Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
- Annual staff award scheme - The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays)
- A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
- Free DBS Check

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,111.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Transport links

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lancaster: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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